Pegasus Spyware India: 40 Journalists Have Been Tapped by Spyware

Pegasus Spyware India

About 300 people including ministers, opposition leaders, journalists, the legal community, businessmen, government officials, scientists, activists, have been spied on in India. According to the report of The Wire, about 40 of them are journalists. These were being monitored through the phone. According to The Washington Post and The Guardian 3 key opposition leaders, 2 ministers, and a judge have also been confirmed to be espionage, although their names have not been given. Israel’s Pegasus spyware was used for this spying.

What is Pegasus Spyware?

Pegasus spyware is a computer program through which all kinds of information can be obtained by hacking someone’s phone, including its camera, mic, content. The details of the conversations made on the phone can also be known from this software.

NSO Group, the maker of Pegasus, says that it does not sell this software to any private company, but only supplies it to governments. In such a situation, the question has arisen whether the government itself got the Indian journalists spying?